Sir Ralph Brian Gibson (17 October 1922 – 30 October 2003) was a British barrister, Lord Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, and Chairman of the Law Commission.
[1][2] Gibson was educated at Charterhouse School and graduated from Brasenose College, Oxford.
[1] His studies at Oxford were interrupted by World War II, during which he served in the 1st King's Dragoon Guards in North Africa as an armoured car driver and instructor, and the Transjordan Frontier Force.
[2] As a barrister, his obituary recorded that he was noted for his "rapid wit and rigorous research".
[1] He reportedly once gave a robber a suspended sentence after being told that the defendant had donated a kidney to save his sister's life.